POWER OF VIEW

Founded in 2024 by Takumi Bando, this Kyoto-based multidisciplinary creative studio is committed to advancing cultural and community-centered projects. With a focus on fostering cultural and economic growth, we offer comprehensive services from conceptual planning and proposal development to implementation and ongoing support.

We value a “POWER OF VIEW”, aiming for a collaborative creation process where the perspectives of project stakeholders converge around a project owner-centered approach.

Our work emphasizes a deep understanding of audience and context, with the goal of creating projects that balance design innovation with social impact. We continually explore the role of design and creativity, always questioning and refining their purpose.

We welcome creative partners who share our values and can join us in fostering mutually inspiring relationships.





"When Eyes Overlap: An Essay to Extend the Gaze"

Charles and Ray Eames, industrial designers active in the 20th century, created numerous experimental short films. Among them is a piece titled "Powers of Ten" (1977).

The film begins with a man and a woman finishing lunch in a Chicago park, viewed from above. As the camera ascends, the perspective shifts to reveal the park, the museum, the campus, the United States, Earth, the solar system, and beyond, presenting a vast, ever-expanding view. Eventually, the film reaches the scale of a galaxy, pausing at a distance of 100 million light-years (10²⁴ meters).

The journey then reverses, accelerating back toward the couple, zooming into their location, then further into the man’s hand—through the skin, capillaries, white blood cells, nuclei, DNA, proteins, carbon atoms, atomic nuclei, protons, and quarks. The film concludes at a scale where the frame measures 0.000001 angstroms (10⁻¹⁶ meters).

The "Power" in Powers of Ten doesn’t refer to physical force or authority but rather to the mathematical concept of exponents. This term, often taught in textbooks as "exponential powers," directly explains the film's structure, which alternates between expansion and contraction by powers of ten.

Though only about nine minutes long, this simple yet profound work transcends the boundaries of design, broadening our perspectives from individuals to cities, from Earth to the cosmos. It invites us to view the world through various scales and contexts. Thank you, Charles and Ray Eames.

Given the nature of the medium, the film operates within the confines of a flat screen, providing a singular, first-person viewpoint. Yet, inspired by the scenes depicted in this film, I aspire to push my thoughts beyond the device, imagining and projecting outward.

For instance, when choosing vegetables at the supermarket, we instinctively examine them from different angles—left, right, above, below—to check for imperfections. This everyday act implies our innate ability to shift perspectives, to look down, look up, or observe from the side. Most physical objects in the world are three-dimensional, while flat visuals are limited to platforms like Instagram or Netflix displayed on laptops and smartphones. Even when buying discounted onions, the resulting dishes vary as widely as the households they belong to, reminding us that each person’s viewpoint is shaped by their cultural background and personal interests.

When multiple individuals gather, each approaching a single subject from their unique perspective, the subject itself—whether a visible object, an unseen event, an unprecedented creation, or something as distant as a galaxy—takes on a new dimension. Though each viewpoint (a "point of view") is singular, the overlapping and interconnection of these perspectives can form a "point cloud," potentially revealing a more comprehensive image of the subject. Through this, even the unseen becomes perceptible.

This revealed vision should aim to be not only visually and culturally innovative but also critically insightful. By conceptualizing this exponential perspective as the "POWER OF VIEW," our mission is to create pathways and connections that allow society and individuals to view the world, Earth, and their place within it from diverse angles.